17Impact assessment guidelines

17 Impact assessment guidelines

(1) The Planning Minister may prepare guidelines relating to—

(a) the assessment of impacts of a declared project; and

(b) the form and content of a comprehensive impact statement or impact management plan for a declared project; and

(c) the form and content of public notices required under this Part.

(2) The Planning Minister must publish impact assessment guidelines on the Department's Internet site as soon as practicable after the Minister prepares the guidelines.

(3) Notice of the preparation of impact assessment guidelines must be published in the Government Gazette as soon as practicable after the Planning Minister prepares the guidelines.

(4) Impact assessment guidelines take effect—

(a) on the day notice of their preparation is published in the Government Gazette; or